Sue Carter
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Sue Carter is a research archaeologist living in Western Australia, and founder of the webpage www.fortifiedengland.com . Sue’s passion lies in fortified sites, especially hillforts, and researching prehistory in both Australia and Britain. Having spent time in the Pilbara region of Western Australia recording Indigenous sites, Sue is keen to see that Australia’s prehistory is recorded, saved and the knowledge shared, to improve the understanding of Sahul’s settlement thousands of years ago.

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Caractacus at the Tribunal of Claudius at Rome : Wiki Commons
May 6, 2012 2 Comments

Cartimandua – Licentious Ruler or Political Pawn?

Two thousand years ago, as the Romans invade Britannia, the princess, who will become the powerful queen of the great tribe of the Brigantes watches the enemies of her people come ever closer. Cartimandua’s world is, from the start, a maelstrom of love and conflict, revenge and retribution. (Erskine 2006)

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Pottery Topographies : Wiki Commons
April 3, 2012 0 Comments

Archaeological Typologies – The Issues

Typology – the classification of objects, structures, or specimens by sub-dividing observed populations into a theoretical sequence or series of groups (types) and subgroups (subtypes) according to consideration of their qualitative, quantitative, morphological, formal, technological, and functional attributes (Darvill 2003: 443).

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The Battersea bronze and enamel shield 350 BC. British Museum, London
February 23, 2012 2 Comments

Warfare in Iron Age Britain – Part 1.

Due to Britain’s isolation it is possible that many of the ‘old ways’ were still being followed. There are very few eye-witness accounts of the inhabitants of Britain prior to the Roman invasions, and what we do have is from classical writers who believed them to be barbaric, not only in their fighting methods but in other aspects of their culture. Waite (2011) sums it up when he describes Celtic feasting and fighting to the death over the hero’s cut of meat

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Magna Carter : Wiki Commons
February 17, 2012 0 Comments

Charter Service : Encasing the Magna Carta

The first Magna Carta was signed in 1215 by King John of England. He was forced by an assembly of barons to put in writing, for the first time, the traditional rights and liberties of the country’s free persons. After another confrontation with barons, Edward I not only reissued the Magna Carta in 1297, but for the first time, it was entered into the official Statute Rolls of England and became the foundation of English law.

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Icknield Way : anemoneprojectors
January 27, 2012 2 Comments

Track or Fiction? – The Icknield Way

The Icknield Way is commonly known and referred to as an ancient track that stretches from the Wessex Downs to Norfolk. Accepted as being one of the original Green Roads of Britain it is believed to date from the Neolithic period and associated with trade, exchange and long distance communication. But is this road really just a myth that has grown up around a legend, and through the process of time and historical Chinese whispers, been turned into something that never actually existed?

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Pipe discovered at Peel (Clarence) Town : Image Source : http://www.historypunk.com/
September 22, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeological Investigations at Peel Town (Clarence), Western Australia.

Dr Shane Burke, from Notre Dame University, Western Australia, has been undertaking archaeological investigations at the original site of Peel Town (Clarence), Henderson, Western Australia. The research aims are to record how the earliest British immigrants to Western Australia responded to the environmental and cultural constraints; and the appropriateness of items brought with settlers for colonization (Burke 2010).

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September 13, 2011 0 Comments

Periwinkle Hill – A “Proposed Motte and Bailey Castle”

Periwinkle Hill is situated between the villages of Reed and Barkway, in Hertfordshire, overlooking the old London to East Anglia road, with views that stretch as far as Ely. Located on this hill are the remains of a structure ploughed out from the surface, but believed to be a “proposed motte and bailey castle.”

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Homo floresiensis : Image Source : Wiki Commons
September 5, 2011 2 Comments

Who’s Your Daddy?

Following on from the previous article, The First Boat People, we know that Sahul, the original name of Australia during prehistoric times, was settled around 40,000 years ago. Although this date is disputed it is now universally accepted as the most accurate and reliable.

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August 22, 2011 5 Comments

The Original Boat People

Archaeologists and anthropologists are still uncertain as to who the first Australians were and from where they came. The debate has been further clouded by the discovery in 2003 of the new species of Homo, Homo floriensis, on the nearby Indonesian island of Flores. Who were the first Australians and how did they cross the ocean to a land they could not see?

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